November 22, 2010
Announcing a new library service to Rio Hondo students:
For the remaining 2-1/2 weeks of
classes the Library will hold a Research Clinic to answer
students’ last-minute questions about their research paper
assignments. This service will supplement the walk-up and
by-appointment reference services provided at the reference
desk.
WHAT: Help with research
questions, such as: how to focus their research topic, find
books and articles related to their assignment, construct
search strategies for specific online databases, evaluate
and cite sources, etc.
WHO: Students wishing to
consult regarding their research, either individually or as
a group, on a walk-in basis.
WHEN: 9:30-11:00 AM,
Monday through Thursday, Nov. 15 – Dec. 2, 2010
WHERE: LR230
The
Library Book Sale is Back!
Oct. 15, 2010 to Nov. 24, 2010
Come up to the library
and look for the cart with the "Book Sale" sign.
These used books are priced to move. All proceeds are used
to purchase new library books.
News
Release
09.09.10
Verizon Gives $15,000.00 to
Rio Hondo College Library for Literacy Program
Whittier, CA - Rio Hondo College Library
received a $15,000.00 grant from Verizon supporting
Reinforcing Literacy @ Rio: A Librarian-Faculty
Collaboration. This initiative addresses the need for
the library to provide satisfying reading experiences for
older, new readers of books written in English. The library
will use the grant monies to develop a Verizon Collection of
high-interest, low-literacy level materials. Three resource
types will be purchased: life-skill oriented/informational
materials, study and instructional materials, and adult
leisure reading.
“This is a great resource for developing
readers,” says Robert Holcomb,
Assistant Dean of Student Success and
Retention (Basic Skills).
In the Rio Hondo Community College District
area, over 26% of the students attending public schools are
English learners. Of district residents, over 35% speak a
language other than English at home, according to the
1999/2000 report of the U.S. Census Bureau. New students at
Rio Hondo Community College take an academic preparedness
test to identify reading level. The majority of students
(63%) test into the remedial English (Reading & Study
Skills) classes. These developmental learners are the
students for whom this grant is directed, though the Verizon
Collection will be available to the entire 25,000-person
campus. Cooperation with the Communications & Languages
Department means that over 1,100 students could benefit from
the program by the spring of 2011.
This is the third Verizon grant that Rio
Hondo College Library has received in the last two years. In
the fall of 2008, Verizon gave $12,500 for the initiative
Project Rio Hondo: An e-Learning
Tutorial. This money
was used to develop online tutorials for the library
Web site. In the summer of 2009, Verizon contributed $20,000
to Children’s Story Time @ Rio Hondo College Library: A
Campus Collaboration. This project resulted in the
creation and implementation of storytelling classes for
Child Development Department students.
Media Contact Information:
Monique Delatte
Instructional/Reference Librarian & Grant Writer
Rio Hondo College Library
3600 Workman Mill Road
Whittier, California 90601
562.463.6642
Mike Murray
Government & External Affairs
Director
Verizon Foundation
Long Beach, Orange County,
San Gabriel Valley, Southeast Los Angeles
Office: 562.435.9594
Fax: 562.435.9810
Free Books!
07.12.10 to
08.13.10
Check out the cart of free books in the Library lobby.
Donations gladly accepted at the Circulation Desk! All
proceeds will go to the purchase of new books.
News Release
11.30.09
Verizon gives $20,00.00, Target gives $3,000.00 to fund
Children’s Story Time @ Rio Hondo College: A Campus
Collaboration
Whittier, CA - Verizon is
contributing $20,000.00 and Target is giving $3,000.00 to
the Rio Hondo College Foundation and the Rio Hondo College
Grant Office, respectively, to fund a collaboration between
Rio Hondo College Library and the Rio Hondo College Child
Development Department and Child Development Center/Lab
School: Children’s Story Time @ Rio Hondo College: A Campus
Collaboration.
Children’s Story Time @ Rio Hondo College will teach
students how to identify and utilize the children’s learning
resources provided by the Rio Hondo College Library. These
resources are growing to include books, puppets, flannel
board stories, family magazines, child development journals,
and databases, such as ProQuest. The Rio Hondo College
Library is working with Child Development Department
instructors to select story time materials and educate
students.
In coordinating the Verizon grant, librarian/instructor,
Monique Delatte, developed and taught six unique classes for
students in three child development courses: Principles and
Practice of Early Childhood Education, Creative Art
Experiences for Children, and Child Development and
Community. Classes taught by Delatte focus on subjects like
selecting story time books, developing art activities to
enhance the stories shared at story time, discovering art
through children’s literature, and even coordinating
opportunities to volunteer with children in the community.
Books utilized in these classes include: social tolerance
titles such as Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport and
Great Joy by Kate DiCamillo; art in literature titles such
as Popigami: When Everyday Paper Pops by James Diaz and
Brava, Strega Nona! written by Tomie dePaola and illustrated
by Robert Clarke Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart; and
volunteerism titles such as Rainbow Resource Directory. Dr.
Carol Sigala says, “I have greatly enjoyed collaborating
with the Rio Hondo College Library as we implement the
Verizon and Target grants promoting early childhood
literacy. Our child development students are benefiting
significantly from this program. Ultimately, the children to
whom they will be reading will benefit tremendously from
this collaboration.”
The grants also funded a Very Hungry Caterpillar-themed
carpet and matching child-sized furniture setting. These
furnishings help to delineate the children’s section of Rio
Hondo College’s new, state-of-the-art, $36 million library
and learning resource center. During the week preceding
finals, Delatte used this area to demonstrate preschool
story time techniques for Sigala’s students. Child
Development Center children enjoyed the storytelling and
crafting fun. Lupe Scianni, Interim Director of the Child
Development Center, observes, “Visiting the Rio Hondo
College Library for story time exposes the Lab School
children to the larger campus community. We hope that these
activities normalize expectations of college attendance for
our preschoolers.”
Delatte describes the cooperation across departments as
fruitful, “Working with faculty in the Child Development
Department and the Child Development Center has been
rewarding for the library. We are able to use the Verizon
and Target monies to enhance our storytelling collection,
and the opportunity for outreach has reminded students that
Rio Hondo College Library offers a working collection for
both parents and students.” Director of the Child
Development Center, Norayma Cabot, Sigala, and librarians
Debby Yashar, Judy Sevilla-Marzona, and Delatte selected
story time titles for the library collection. Library and
Student Learning Support Dean, Kats Gustafson explains,
“Expanding the resources available to the instructors and
students of the Child Development Department is a great
benefit of these grants. In these challenging economic
times, we are especially pleased to offer students even more
materials and library classes through our partnerships with
Verizon Foundation and Target.”
“As a ‘Literacy Champion,’ Verizon partners with
organizations that are working to increase reading skills,”
said Mike Murray, Director – Government and External
Affairs. “The Rio Hondo College library project is a
comprehensive literacy strategy that sets a standard.”
Rio Hondo College is a Hispanic-serving institution. The
student body is comprised of persons from Whittier and the
surrounding areas.
Verizon is committed to being America's literacy champion.
The company is conducting a national campaign to increase
community awareness and to generate additional funding and
support of literacy programs for adults, children and
families. Working under the banner of Verizon Reads, a
private charity, the award-winning philanthropy program
reaches out to the nearly 40 million Americans who have low
literacy skills. For more information on Verizon Reads,
visit www.VerizonReads.net.
Media Contact Information:
Monique Delatte
Adjunct Librarian
Rio Hondo College Library
3600 Workman Mill Road
Whittier, California 90601
562.463.6642
Mike Murray
Government & External Affairs Director
Verizon Foundation
Long Beach, Orange County, San Gabriel Valley, Southeast Los
Angeles
Office: 562-435-9594
Fax: 562-435-9810
Project Rio Hondo: An
e-Learning Tutorial (Verizon gives $12,500.00)
Verizon is contributing $12,500.00
through the Rio Hondo College Foundation to fund a Rio Hondo
College Library online library literacy tutorial: Project
Rio Hondo: An e-Learning Tutorial. The goal of this new
initiative is to improve the retention rates of entering
freshman by increasing their ability to identify and employ
library resources through the development of an e-Learning
tutorial to be used by remedial and entry-level English
classes, speech classes, and social sciences classes.
Project Rio Hondo will complement classes by providing
convenient 24/7 access to information about how to conduct
research and complete reports and essays. As much as 80% of
all Rio Hondo College classes already have an online
component to assist nontraditional students.
Project Rio Hondo will teach students how to identify and
utilize the learning resources provided by the Rio Hondo
College Library. These resources include books, magazines,
journals, newspapers, and databases, such a ProQuest and
Gale Virtual Reference Library. Currently, the librarians
instruct students in the use of resources that are
accessible to all Rio Hondo College students through
on-campus orientations. These library literacy workshops
reach 66%-75% of the remedial and entry-level English
classes. The e-Learning technology will allow librarians to
reach students off-campus as well, extending library
outreach to include 100% of remedial and entry-level English
classes. The use of these interactive learning tools will
increase library literacy. Student knowledge of learning
resources correlates to heightened confidence in writing
reports and essays and conducting research.
The Verizon grant will pay for
software and librarian time. Librarians Tatiana Shabelnik
and Marco Carrillo will design and implement Project Rio
Hondo, which will be available to the over 20,000 Rio Hondo
College students. Shabelnik has extensive experience in the
development of online information for college students, and
will lead Project Rio Hondo. Carrillo is a practiced
designer of Web information and will assist Shabelnik.
Shabelnik says, “The library will greatly benefit from
online tutorials. Linked from the main Rio Hondo Library Web
page, the tutorials will offer patrons step-by-step
demonstrations of how to use databases, Rio WebCat, and
library services. Patrons will be able to watch the
tutorials at their own pace. If they do not understand a
particular concept, they can rewind the frame or they can
fast forward through those frames with which they were
already familiar.” She continues, “Online tutorials also
will be used as student assessment tools as they will
include quizzes/feedback surveys at the end of each
tutorial. These comments will help us to improve the
design/content of future tutorials. I am very excited about
this project!”
Carrillo agrees, “This generous grant from Verizon will
enhance the information competency of our library community.
We are grateful and motivated to enrich our library's
services.” Project Rio Hondo will be promoted by the Dean of
Student Learning Support and Articulation, Dr. Loretta
Canett-Bailes, and the Rio Hondo College Library librarians.
This team will work to build campus-wide support and
awareness of Project Rio Hondo.
Verizon is committed to being
America's literacy champion. The company is conducting a
national campaign to increase community awareness and to
generate additional funding and support of literacy programs
for adults, children and families. Working under the banner
of Verizon Reads, a private charity, the award-winning
philanthropy program reaches out to the nearly 40 million
Americans who have low literacy skills. For more information
on Verizon Reads, visit
www.VerizonReads.net.
Rudy Martinez and wonderful cast score
in
Remembering the Future: A Journey through the Mind of Rio
Hondo College
Article published: Wednesday,
April 26, 2006
El Monte Mid Valley Newspaper
Remembering the Future: A Journey through the Mind of Rio
Hondo College
Whittier —Rio Hondo College will present an original
play, "Remembering the Future: A Journey through the Mind of
Rio Hondo College," written by Bernardo Solano and directed
by William Korf. Performances will be April 27th through
April 29th at 8 pm and on April 30th at 2:30 pm in Wray
Theater on the Rio Hondo College campus, 3600 Workman Mill
Road, Whittier. Performances are open to the public and
parking is free.
Whittier —Rio Hondo College will present an original play,
"Remembering the Future: A Journey through the Mind of Rio
Hondo College," written by Bernardo Solano and directed by
William Korf. Performances will be April 27th through April
29th at 8 pm and on April 30th at 2:30 pm in Wray Theater on
the Rio Hondo College campus, 3600 Workman Mill Road,
Whittier. Performances are open to the public and parking
is free.
The play introduces a new theater genre to the campus.
Two years in the making, "Remembering the Future" evolved
from several two-hour meetings that were held with members
of classified staff. These meetings, called story circles,
involved 5 to 10 participants and were recorded by Mr.
Solano. Those conversations have served as the foundation of
which the play is built.
This type of community-based theater began as a way to
create an artistic voice for groups that historically have
not been heard. One other community-based company,
Cornerstone Theater Company, has been creating new plays and
adapting classic plays to mirror integral parts of everyday
life since 1986. Professor William Korf spent a portion of
his sabbatical with the Cornerstone Theater company and
brought his experience to the development of this play.
"Thousands of students are involved in the Arts programs
at Rio Hondo College," said Gary Mendez, President of the
Rio Hondo College Board of Trustees. "Through their
participation, students receive high quality cutting edge
education and exposure. This play is a wonderful example of
innovation in the Arts Department."
Korf and Solano created composite characters from the
story circle conversations. Not only are those stories the
basis for the play, but five of the 50 staff that
participated in the conversations will act in the play. The
hope is that this will be just the first of series of
performances from the many different groups that make up Rio
Hondo College.
"In a time of transition on this campus, the creation of
this play was very important. The goal is to build
understanding about how the campus has come to be and how
each of our lives plays a part in the transition of this
institution," said Korf. "I am hopeful that members of the
classified staff will attend the play-their participation
brings the entire process full circle."
"Remembering the Future" has 20 Rio Hondo College
students, both theater majors and non-theater majors are in
the cast. The play is the first community-based play that
Korf has directed and promises to be a historical event.
"Communication and collaboration is at the heart of this
College," said Dr. Rose Marie Joyce, President of Rio Hondo
College. "I look forward to attending the play and seeing
an illustration of that communication and collaboration in
action."
Halloween '05 and L.I.B. (Librarians In Black)
Taking our cue from "Men in Black" the
library staff pose threateningly in our lobby which was
decorated with scary items.
Rio Hondo College Archival Photographs
View a small, but growing, collection of archival photographs of
the campus.
Past Events
One Book, One Whittier
The City of Whittier read
The
Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West during the month of
February. There were book discussions, film screenings and
presentations throughout the City of Whittier. Copies of the
novel are available at Whittier Central Library, the Whittwood
Branch Library, and right here at the Rio Hondo College Library.
Luis
Rodriguez
California Stories : Reading
The Grapes of Wrath Library Display (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of
Wrath Subject Guide (John Steinbeck)
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